If you ever wanted to check out Ryzom but were turned off by that susbcription fee, well...

It seems like more and more MMO teams are growing to see the viability in establishing some sort of free-to-play community within their games, and Ryzom is just the next one to see the light! In their latest patch, version 1.11.0, the team at Ryzom has announced a new free trial system, where players can play a brand new account in Ryzom without any time or place limits! The restrictions that the Ryzom team has chosen to place on their endless free trial members is more of the storage and level variety, as free trial players cannot own any mektoub packers, use the inventory of their apartments, nor can they take any items from guild storage. As well, all free trial players will be capped to a maximum level of 125 in all different skills.

So what do you all think of this? Is an endless free trial system at least better to a short free trial system? What about in comparison to the 'freemium' model being used by Turbine? Either way, progress is on the march, and free is the name of the game!